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[flatfootskier]

Why do you need current limit?
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To keep within the thermal envelope of the transformer's continuous rating

 

[flatfootskier]

My best guess.
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Not sure your efficiencies are particularly accurate, but regardless, I'm not trying to make money by exporting to the grid. I'm taking from the grid, losing a bit as heat, then exporting a bit less back on a test bench. It's not about generating per se, the goal is to allow me to simulate a PV array to test some inverters and some ImmerSun type diverters & other PV related ancilliary gizmos.

it's kWh by the way... and one the main reasons is that I want to be able to simulate/test PV equipment in the dark.

 

[N11778]

PV equipment won't work in the dark.

 

[crutschow]

PV equipment won't work in the dark.

Unless there's some near IR floating around.

 

[KeepItSimpleStupid]

Not sure your efficiencies are particularly accurate, but regardless, I'm not trying to make money by exporting to the grid. I'm taking from the grid, losing a bit as heat, then exporting a bit less back on a test bench. It's not about generating per se, the goal is to allow me to simulate a PV array to test some inverters and some ImmerSun type diverters & other PV related ancilliary gizmos.

it's kWh by the way... and one the main reasons is that I want to be able to simulate/test PV equipment in the dark.

Could you use an "Electronic Load"? In escence program the curve of the solar array. I worked in the basic research part of the industry.

Not sure if it would work at all, but you have constant I, V, P, and R available to you.

 

[flatfootskier]

PV equipment won't work in the dark.

Re-read the thread. You've been commenting all the way through it. Your post count and credibility are creating an inverse squared curve.[/QUOTE]

 

[flatfootskier]

Could you use an "Electronic Load"? In escence program the curve of the solar array. I worked in the basic research part of the industry.

Not sure if it would work at all, but you have constant I, V, P, and R available to you.

Thanks for the 'teaser!!' would be lovely to have but I have the transformers & if I can just make the current limiting work I'm pretty much where I want to get with not much outlay.

 

[N11778]

Sorry this thread is so over my head I thought is was a game of charades.
Guess what i'm doing.
3 words, first word......
Again sorry.